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Chad
Lieberman

A skilled chess player's intuition and instinct
can be the saving grace in a battle over the board; but it could
also mislead you occasionally. In my experience, this happens
most frequently in endgames.

The latter part of a chess
match requires very careful and precise calculations. While there
is a common misconception that grandmasters calculate more than
a dozen moves ahead in positions they are analyzing, this statement
may not be so far off for endgame positions.

Strong chess
players do have the ability to calculate many moves ahead in positions
and to visualize stages of development within those branches of
analysis. As you might imagine, this becomes easier to do near
the endgame as there are fewer pieces to track.

Concrete
conclusions to these analyses are also a helpful aspect of calculation
in the endgame. Often the branches of the analysis end with an
obvious win for one side. With this ease comes some difficulty
though: endgames tend to be tricky.

Because of the alteration
of the pieces' relative values in the endgame, a greater breadth
of possible moves must be considered. All piece sacrifices must
be considered. Any move that creates a passed pawn might be worth
considering because that pawn could soon queen.